How does an old-fashioned print-era company — formerly known as the Yellow Pages — attract top Westside talent to its offices in Glendale as it tries to remake itself as an online local search company? For those who live in hip parts L.A., the company now called YP has an answer it borrowed from Silicon Valley: the luxury bus, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The Armenian community in Glendale quickly reacted to the takeover of a majority Armenian town called Kessab by Syrian rebels in northwest Syria in late March, forcing inhabitants to flee.
A social media campaign cooked up by a Glendale youth...

Police arrested five motorists Friday for alleged drunk and drugged driving during an enforcement operation in Glendale.
Officers stopped 41 vehicles during the citywide patrol, which aimed to look for motorists who were driving under the influence of...

A man with an apparent taste for fine liquor stole a bottle of cognac valued at roughly $3,000 from a north Glendale grocery store on Friday, police said.
Surveillance video reportedly showed that man at about 2:30 a.m. approached Pacific Food Mart in...

Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who allegedly yelled at a 17-year-old girl and insisted she enter his truck in La Crescenta.
The girl was walking alone at about 3:15 p.m. on April 18 in the 3000 block of Montrose...

Firefighters contained a small brush fire Tuesday afternoon before it spread to nearby homes in a north Glendale neighborhood, police said.
The fire, which was reported at 3:29 p.m., engulfed a wood fence, palm trees and brush near homes in the 1300 block of North Howard Street, according to Glendale police.
But firefighters quickly knocked it down at 3:52 p.m. While no structures were damaged, three homes remained without power, Glendale fire spokeswoman Brandy Villanueva said.
A Glendale Water...

A petition to repeal a 7% tax tacked onto Glendale utility bills failed to garner enough signatures to make it onto the April 2015 ballot.
The petition to get rid of the utility users tax, which has been on the city’s books for more than four decades, fell 198 signatures short of the required 2,192 signatures necessary to get on the ballot, according to a city statement released Tuesday.
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FOR THE RECORD: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated enough signatures were not collected...

Police are looking for a man and woman who they said reportedly stole and concealed several hundreds of dollars in teeth-whitening and skin-care products in a reusable shopping bag.
Photographs of the pair were released Tuesday and showed them browsing the aisles of a grocery store.
They are wanted in connection with four shoplifting cases, which occurred sometime between 6:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. and mostly on weekdays from March 26 to April 15 at a Vons grocery store in the 2000 block of Verdugo...

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The City Council called on developers to be imaginative if they want to partner with Glendale to bring new construction to a historic site in North Glendale.
"I want to open it up to anything. Creative minds: let's see what people can tell us," Councilman Dave Weaver said before the council unanimously voted on Tuesday to give developers a shot at proposing a project at Rockhaven, a former women's sanitarium that served patients such as Billie Burke, an actress who played Glinda the Good Witch in "The...

After a joint letter from more than 30 members of Congress, a letter from local Armenian leaders, years of community pressure and a petition drive on a website, the White House has agreed to exhibit in the near future, likely this fall, a rug made by Armenian orphans more than 90 years ago, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) said on Wednesday.
The rug, woven by orphans of the Armenian Genocide in 1920, was presented to President Calvin Coolidge in 1925 as a symbol of gratitude for American aid and generosity...

Rather than get rid of free self-defense classes offered by a city commission for women and girls that puts the city on shaky legal grounds, the City Council this week unanimously voted to offer similar classes for men and boys.
Most of the council members voted reluctantly for the alternative classes, which were prompted after a nonprofit called the National Coalition for Men argued in a letter sent to city officials in March that gender-exclusive self-defense classes violate equal-protection clauses of...

A rodent chewing wires reportedly caused a power outage Wednesday morning for at least 7,000 Glendale Water & Power customers in downtown Glendale.
The rodent was discovered about 7:15 a.m. inside an electrical panel at the utility's Tropico Substation on South Glendale Avenue, said Glendale city spokesman Sgt. Tom Lorenz.
It appears to have caused the electrical short, he said.
Crews were able to restore power to customers within half an hour.
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